Latest items for GEW-PRACTICE-1
Feb. 7, 2026, 3:43 p.m.
Countries: Ethiopia
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"For two years, Tseneat [Ethiopian woman] carried her rape inside her. The agony never faded. It attacked her from the inside out. The remnants of the attack stayed in Tseneat’s womb – not as a memory or metaphor, but a set of physical objects: Eight rusted screws. A steel pair of nail clippers. A note, written in ballpoint pen and wrapped in plastic. 'Sons of Eritrea, we are brave,' the note reads. 'We have committed ourselves to this, and we will continue doing it. We will make Tigrayan females infertile.' The objects, revealed by X-ray and surgically extracted by doctors more than two years later, were forced inside Tseneat as...more
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"For two years, Tseneat [Ethiopian woman] carried her rape inside her. The agony never faded. It attacked her from the inside out. The remnants of the attack stayed in Tseneat’s womb – not as a memory or metaphor, but a set of physical objects: Eight rusted screws. A steel pair of nail clippers. A note, written in ballpoint pen and wrapped in plastic. 'Sons of Eritrea, we are brave,' the note reads. 'We have committed ourselves to this, and we will continue doing it. We will make Tigrayan females infertile.' The objects, revealed by X-ray and surgically extracted by doctors more than two years later, were forced inside Tseneat as...more
Feb. 4, 2026, 11:24 a.m.
Countries: Argentina
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
There is no evidence that the Argentinian government facilitated or was accepting of the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war between the years 2020-2025. During that period, Argentina was not involved in an armed conflict. Rebel groups/armed insurgencies did not exist in Argentina during that period. (NAC - CODER COMMENT).
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
There is no evidence that the Argentinian government facilitated or was accepting of the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war between the years 2020-2025. During that period, Argentina was not involved in an armed conflict. Rebel groups/armed insurgencies did not exist in Argentina during that period. (NAC - CODER COMMENT).
Feb. 4, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
Countries: Angola
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
There is no evidence that the Angolan government facilitated or was accepting of the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war between the years 2020-2025. During that period, Angola was not involved in an armed conflict. The insurgent group Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda (FLEC) may have had a small presence in the country between 2020 and 2025, though reporting on their activities is scarce and no reports have been made regarding their use of sexual violence as a weapon of war during that time. (NAC - CODER COMMENT).
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
There is no evidence that the Angolan government facilitated or was accepting of the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war between the years 2020-2025. During that period, Angola was not involved in an armed conflict. The insurgent group Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda (FLEC) may have had a small presence in the country between 2020 and 2025, though reporting on their activities is scarce and no reports have been made regarding their use of sexual violence as a weapon of war during that time. (NAC - CODER COMMENT).
Feb. 4, 2026, 11:16 a.m.
Countries: Algeria
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
There is no evidence that the Algerian government facilitated or was accepting of the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war between the years 2020-2025. During that period, Algeria was not involved in an armed conflict. The insurgent group Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) may have had a small presence in the country between 2020 and 2025, though reporting on their activities is scarce and no reports have been made regarding their use of sexual violence as a weapon of war during that time. (NAC - CODER COMMENT).
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
There is no evidence that the Algerian government facilitated or was accepting of the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war between the years 2020-2025. During that period, Algeria was not involved in an armed conflict. The insurgent group Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) may have had a small presence in the country between 2020 and 2025, though reporting on their activities is scarce and no reports have been made regarding their use of sexual violence as a weapon of war during that time. (NAC - CODER COMMENT).
Feb. 4, 2026, 11:10 a.m.
Countries: Albania
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
There is no evidence that the Albanian government facilitated or was accepting of the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war between the years 2020-2025. During that period, Albania was not involved in an armed conflict. Rebel groups/armed insurgencies did not exist in Albania during that period. (NAC - CODER COMMENT).
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
There is no evidence that the Albanian government facilitated or was accepting of the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war between the years 2020-2025. During that period, Albania was not involved in an armed conflict. Rebel groups/armed insurgencies did not exist in Albania during that period. (NAC - CODER COMMENT).
Jan. 26, 2026, 7:09 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"The Taliban, who enforces a harsh interpretation of Sharia, impose draconian restrictions on women and girls. Their rule is marked by arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, widespread gender-based violence, unlawful killings, obstruction of humanitarian aid, and public executions...Hazara women and girls exist at a triple axis of persecution of their ethnic identity, religious affiliation, and gender" (2). The Hazara are a religious minority in Afghanistan subject to targeted attacks by the Taliban. While this article does not directly describe their kidnapping and/or rape by Taliban forces, it can reasonably be assumed that these actions (which are being undertaken against non-minority Afghan women) are also being used against the Hazara, perhaps at...more
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"The Taliban, who enforces a harsh interpretation of Sharia, impose draconian restrictions on women and girls. Their rule is marked by arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, widespread gender-based violence, unlawful killings, obstruction of humanitarian aid, and public executions...Hazara women and girls exist at a triple axis of persecution of their ethnic identity, religious affiliation, and gender" (2). The Hazara are a religious minority in Afghanistan subject to targeted attacks by the Taliban. While this article does not directly describe their kidnapping and/or rape by Taliban forces, it can reasonably be assumed that these actions (which are being undertaken against non-minority Afghan women) are also being used against the Hazara, perhaps at...more
Jan. 26, 2026, 6:57 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"Men styling themselves God’s soldiers are using sexual violence on captive women to inflict punishment not just on individuals but to intimidate all Afghan women from any role in society...At least 10 women in separate interviews told Afghanistan International they were subjected to sexual assault or harassment by members of the Taliban during detention...[One detainee] remembers being taken to another room multiple times, where she was whipped on her back, thighs, and legs and gang-raped" (2,3,5).
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"Men styling themselves God’s soldiers are using sexual violence on captive women to inflict punishment not just on individuals but to intimidate all Afghan women from any role in society...At least 10 women in separate interviews told Afghanistan International they were subjected to sexual assault or harassment by members of the Taliban during detention...[One detainee] remembers being taken to another room multiple times, where she was whipped on her back, thighs, and legs and gang-raped" (2,3,5).
Jan. 5, 2026, 10:55 a.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"It would be no surprise for a Taliban official to feel free to inflict forced marriage, rape, assault, nonconsensual filming, and blackmail. The question is how many such cases go unheard. When the Taliban took over Afghanistan in August 2021, they systematically dismantled structures to combat violence against women and girls. These include shelters, legal assistance programs, and specialized prosecution units and courts tasked with enforcing the country’s 2009 Law on Elimination of Violence Against Women. All of that is gone now. Journalist Ruchi Kumar corroborated facts about Elaha’s case and said Taliban officials have similarly targeted female relatives of other former government officials with violence to punish their male...more
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"It would be no surprise for a Taliban official to feel free to inflict forced marriage, rape, assault, nonconsensual filming, and blackmail. The question is how many such cases go unheard. When the Taliban took over Afghanistan in August 2021, they systematically dismantled structures to combat violence against women and girls. These include shelters, legal assistance programs, and specialized prosecution units and courts tasked with enforcing the country’s 2009 Law on Elimination of Violence Against Women. All of that is gone now. Journalist Ruchi Kumar corroborated facts about Elaha’s case and said Taliban officials have similarly targeted female relatives of other former government officials with violence to punish their male...more
Jan. 5, 2026, 10:49 a.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"In August the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan reported cases of women detainees being sexually abused and assaulted by the Taliban. Similarly, Afghan Witness and the media reported that the Taliban initiated a campaign in January to arrest women and girls for non-compliance with mandatory hijab rules. This resulted in the arrest and detention of dozens of women and girls during the year, “with many reporting degrading treatments, torture, and even rape”.There were continued reports of a sharp increase in gender-based violence as well as forced and early marriage. Between January 2022 and June 2024, Afghan Witness recorded 840 incidents of gender-based violence against...more
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"In August the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan reported cases of women detainees being sexually abused and assaulted by the Taliban. Similarly, Afghan Witness and the media reported that the Taliban initiated a campaign in January to arrest women and girls for non-compliance with mandatory hijab rules. This resulted in the arrest and detention of dozens of women and girls during the year, “with many reporting degrading treatments, torture, and even rape”.There were continued reports of a sharp increase in gender-based violence as well as forced and early marriage. Between January 2022 and June 2024, Afghan Witness recorded 840 incidents of gender-based violence against...more
Oct. 27, 2025, 9:11 p.m.
Countries: D R Congo
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"A devastating Amnesty International report reveals harrowing testimonies of sexual violence, torture and extrajudicial killings carried out between March and May of this year [by warring groups of rebels from Congo and Rwanda]" (para. 2). "Within the latest Amnesty report, one woman said she was raped by five M23 fighters inside a military camp in Bukavu: 'When I see someone in a military uniform, I'm traumatised. Since that day, I do not go out. When I see them, I feel pain in my heart. It's like a heart palpitation'" (para. 22)."In total, Amnesty interviewed 14 survivors of sexual violence – eight were raped by M23, five by Wazalendo, and one...more
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"A devastating Amnesty International report reveals harrowing testimonies of sexual violence, torture and extrajudicial killings carried out between March and May of this year [by warring groups of rebels from Congo and Rwanda]" (para. 2). "Within the latest Amnesty report, one woman said she was raped by five M23 fighters inside a military camp in Bukavu: 'When I see someone in a military uniform, I'm traumatised. Since that day, I do not go out. When I see them, I feel pain in my heart. It's like a heart palpitation'" (para. 22)."In total, Amnesty interviewed 14 survivors of sexual violence – eight were raped by M23, five by Wazalendo, and one...more
Oct. 24, 2025, 11:43 p.m.
Countries: Colombia
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"Valeria says she has not received any state support and does not trust the situation to improve. “The authorities do nothing here. They are scared of the guerillas. The government has lost control,” she said. “No woman is safe.” Colombia, which has faced one of the world’s longest-running conflicts, is battling a nationwide surge in violence, forcing more than 130,000 people to flee, leaving hundreds dead and trapping tens of thousands in their homes this year alone. Vera says the “state is in denial about what is happening here”. “We’ve reported more than 450 cases of human trafficking and sexual violence since 2020. And there has been no response, no...more
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"Valeria says she has not received any state support and does not trust the situation to improve. “The authorities do nothing here. They are scared of the guerillas. The government has lost control,” she said. “No woman is safe.” Colombia, which has faced one of the world’s longest-running conflicts, is battling a nationwide surge in violence, forcing more than 130,000 people to flee, leaving hundreds dead and trapping tens of thousands in their homes this year alone. Vera says the “state is in denial about what is happening here”. “We’ve reported more than 450 cases of human trafficking and sexual violence since 2020. And there has been no response, no...more
Aug. 20, 2025, 7:11 p.m.
Countries: Central African Rep
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"Armed conflict in the Central African Republic had led to many cases of gender-based violence and exposed a great number of women and girls to sexually transmitted infections" (Page 3).
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"Armed conflict in the Central African Republic had led to many cases of gender-based violence and exposed a great number of women and girls to sexually transmitted infections" (Page 3).
Aug. 16, 2025, 8:55 p.m.
Countries: Burma/Myanmar
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"[T]he military junta, which routinely uses rape as a weapon of war and form of punishment" (Para 4).
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"[T]he military junta, which routinely uses rape as a weapon of war and form of punishment" (Para 4).
July 8, 2025, 3:34 p.m.
Countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"During the Bosnian War in the early 1990s, the combatant Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) adopted a policy of genocidal rape and forced pregnancy to “plant the seeds” of ethnic Serbs in Bosnia and weaken the ethnic Bosniak bloodline (Weitsman, 2008). In response to this crime, the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court formally recognized genocidal rape and forced pregnancy during conflict as a crime against humanity" (Para 7).
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"During the Bosnian War in the early 1990s, the combatant Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) adopted a policy of genocidal rape and forced pregnancy to “plant the seeds” of ethnic Serbs in Bosnia and weaken the ethnic Bosniak bloodline (Weitsman, 2008). In response to this crime, the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court formally recognized genocidal rape and forced pregnancy during conflict as a crime against humanity" (Para 7).
May 1, 2025, 4:55 p.m.
Countries: Ukraine
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his team have actively encouraged the West to plunder their war-torn country, inking an investment partnership with the global asset management firm Blackrock, stripping workers of labor protections, and handing state owned companies over to private firms. Yet Ukraine’s surrogacy industry has fallen under the radar, despite pumping over $1.5 billion into the country’s economy in 2018 alone. Since then, the global market for surrogate babies has more than doubled. The industry was valued at over $14 billion in 2022, and is projected to grow by around 25% annually in coming years, according to an analysis by Global Market Insights" (par. 3-4).
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his team have actively encouraged the West to plunder their war-torn country, inking an investment partnership with the global asset management firm Blackrock, stripping workers of labor protections, and handing state owned companies over to private firms. Yet Ukraine’s surrogacy industry has fallen under the radar, despite pumping over $1.5 billion into the country’s economy in 2018 alone. Since then, the global market for surrogate babies has more than doubled. The industry was valued at over $14 billion in 2022, and is projected to grow by around 25% annually in coming years, according to an analysis by Global Market Insights" (par. 3-4).
April 29, 2025, 4:26 p.m.
Countries: Burma/Myanmar
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"The violence carried out by the Myanmar military, which has been described as a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing” by the UN, saw entire villages razed, tens of thousands killed and women and children gang-raped" (par. 7). "Among the survivors was Fatima Khatun, 24, who has been living in the squalid Kutupalong camp in the Bangladeshi port of Cox’s Bazar ever since. She still has nightmares about what happened to her in the summer of 2017. Khatun had been hiding in the forest after her house was burned down by the Myanmar military when two soldiers found her. One pinned her down while the other brutally raped her. 'They held...more
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"The violence carried out by the Myanmar military, which has been described as a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing” by the UN, saw entire villages razed, tens of thousands killed and women and children gang-raped" (par. 7). "Among the survivors was Fatima Khatun, 24, who has been living in the squalid Kutupalong camp in the Bangladeshi port of Cox’s Bazar ever since. She still has nightmares about what happened to her in the summer of 2017. Khatun had been hiding in the forest after her house was burned down by the Myanmar military when two soldiers found her. One pinned her down while the other brutally raped her. 'They held...more
April 1, 2025, 8:23 p.m.
Countries: Russia
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"Nataliya can never forget what happened that night: how the Russian soldiers invaded her home, pinned her to the bed and took it in turns to rape her at gunpoint in front of her terrified six-year-old daughter. She remembers screaming at them afterwards, fighting them to leave her sobbing daughter alone, clawing at their faces before they beat her with a gun and she fell to the ground. Nataliya, not her real name, couldn't stop them as they stumbled towards her frightened little girl and subjected her to the same horrific abuse. In another house thirty minutes down the road, Maria remembers the sound of the Russian soldiers breaking down...more
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"Nataliya can never forget what happened that night: how the Russian soldiers invaded her home, pinned her to the bed and took it in turns to rape her at gunpoint in front of her terrified six-year-old daughter. She remembers screaming at them afterwards, fighting them to leave her sobbing daughter alone, clawing at their faces before they beat her with a gun and she fell to the ground. Nataliya, not her real name, couldn't stop them as they stumbled towards her frightened little girl and subjected her to the same horrific abuse. In another house thirty minutes down the road, Maria remembers the sound of the Russian soldiers breaking down...more
April 1, 2025, 7:44 p.m.
Countries: Russia
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1, GEW-DATA-1
"Russia is continuing to commit serious rights violations and war crimes in Ukraine, including 'systematic' torture and rape, United Nations investigators said on Friday. The high-level Commission of Inquiry (COI) on the rights situation in Ukraine since the full-scale invasion, said that it had found fresh evidence of widespread abuses" (para 1-2). "The team found that Russia's treatment of Ukrainian prisoners of war was 'horrific'. 'The report documents incidents of rape and other sexual violence committed against women in circumstances which also amount to torture. It also details incidents of torture with a sexualised dimension and threats of rape against male prisoners of war'" (para 9-11).
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1, GEW-DATA-1
"Russia is continuing to commit serious rights violations and war crimes in Ukraine, including 'systematic' torture and rape, United Nations investigators said on Friday. The high-level Commission of Inquiry (COI) on the rights situation in Ukraine since the full-scale invasion, said that it had found fresh evidence of widespread abuses" (para 1-2). "The team found that Russia's treatment of Ukrainian prisoners of war was 'horrific'. 'The report documents incidents of rape and other sexual violence committed against women in circumstances which also amount to torture. It also details incidents of torture with a sexualised dimension and threats of rape against male prisoners of war'" (para 9-11).
March 21, 2025, 4:44 p.m.
Countries: Central African Rep
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"Reports of rape in Bouar are not new. When rebels from the Coalition of Patriots for Change (CPC), an alliance of CAR’s armed groups formed to disrupt the country’s presidential election four years ago, captured the town in December 2020, they carried out a campaign of sexual assault, the UN says in a report" (para 22).
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"Reports of rape in Bouar are not new. When rebels from the Coalition of Patriots for Change (CPC), an alliance of CAR’s armed groups formed to disrupt the country’s presidential election four years ago, captured the town in December 2020, they carried out a campaign of sexual assault, the UN says in a report" (para 22).
March 19, 2025, 10:12 p.m.
Countries: Iraq
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"Since the last review, the GoI [Government of Iraq] has failed to take adequate measures to protect women in conflict. Women belonging to minorities, including Yezidis, Christians, Turkmen, Shabak, and others, have been particularly affected. ISIS has perpetrated mass killings, arbitrary punishments, sexual violence and forced conversions. Women have been targeted and sold as sexual slaves or forcibly married to ISIS fighters and have been subjected to violations including rape, physical and verbal abuse, deprivation of basic necessities, and various forms of torture. In August 2014, ISIS killed approximately 3,100 Yezidis and kidnapped a further 6,800 to become sex slaves or fighters. As of February 2019, over 3,000 of those...more
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"Since the last review, the GoI [Government of Iraq] has failed to take adequate measures to protect women in conflict. Women belonging to minorities, including Yezidis, Christians, Turkmen, Shabak, and others, have been particularly affected. ISIS has perpetrated mass killings, arbitrary punishments, sexual violence and forced conversions. Women have been targeted and sold as sexual slaves or forcibly married to ISIS fighters and have been subjected to violations including rape, physical and verbal abuse, deprivation of basic necessities, and various forms of torture. In August 2014, ISIS killed approximately 3,100 Yezidis and kidnapped a further 6,800 to become sex slaves or fighters. As of February 2019, over 3,000 of those...more
March 3, 2025, 9:03 p.m.
Countries: China
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"Reports of organized criminal groups subjecting Chinese and foreign women and girls to forced labour in domestic service" (Page 8). "Reports of coercive employment measures for Uyghur women, including forced labour" (Page 11). "Prohibit coercive employment measures, including forced labour of Uyghur women, immediately discontinue any such measures, release all women subject to forced labour, and prosecute and punish perpetrators, including State officials, of gender-based violence, such as sexual violence and harassment, against women in employment, notably in vocational training and education centres for Uyghur women" (Page 12). "Reports that so-called 'labour transfer' and 'vocational training' programmes in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China undermine the religious, linguistic and cultural...more
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"Reports of organized criminal groups subjecting Chinese and foreign women and girls to forced labour in domestic service" (Page 8). "Reports of coercive employment measures for Uyghur women, including forced labour" (Page 11). "Prohibit coercive employment measures, including forced labour of Uyghur women, immediately discontinue any such measures, release all women subject to forced labour, and prosecute and punish perpetrators, including State officials, of gender-based violence, such as sexual violence and harassment, against women in employment, notably in vocational training and education centres for Uyghur women" (Page 12). "Reports that so-called 'labour transfer' and 'vocational training' programmes in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China undermine the religious, linguistic and cultural...more
Feb. 28, 2025, 5:42 p.m.
Countries: Niger
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"During conflicts, particularly in the region of Diffa where the terrorist group Boko Haram operates, women are the most affected as they are targeted by terrorists to become hostages, suicide bombers or sex slaves. In July 2019, 33 women and 6 children were abducted in Ngalewa in the Diffa region and these people have not yet been found. When women are not abducted by terrorists, they find themselves alone or with children following the loss of their husbands, brothers or fathers due to them being murdered or forcibly recruited by terrorist groups. As a result, they are left to provide for the needs of the family, without having a source...more
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"During conflicts, particularly in the region of Diffa where the terrorist group Boko Haram operates, women are the most affected as they are targeted by terrorists to become hostages, suicide bombers or sex slaves. In July 2019, 33 women and 6 children were abducted in Ngalewa in the Diffa region and these people have not yet been found. When women are not abducted by terrorists, they find themselves alone or with children following the loss of their husbands, brothers or fathers due to them being murdered or forcibly recruited by terrorist groups. As a result, they are left to provide for the needs of the family, without having a source...more
Feb. 28, 2025, 12:26 p.m.
Countries: D R Congo
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"In a disturbing new claim following the uprising, the UN office of the high commissioner for human rights (OHCHR) warned that sexual violence is being used as a weapon of war by rival armed groups in Goma" (para 15).
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"In a disturbing new claim following the uprising, the UN office of the high commissioner for human rights (OHCHR) warned that sexual violence is being used as a weapon of war by rival armed groups in Goma" (para 15).
Feb. 11, 2025, 9:54 p.m.
Countries: Iraq
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"There is some limited psycho-social assistance, and initiatives for survivors the means to earn their livelihoods, for Yezidi survivors of violence in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, but this could be strengthened" (2). "On April 7, 2019, the President submitted the draft Law on Support to Yazidi Women Survivors (Draft Law) to parliament. The draft, which was shared with Human Rights Watch, aims to rehabilitate, reintegrate and provide economic empowerment to Yezidi female survivors, as well as to provide symbolic recognition of genocide committed against Yezidis. However, there are a number of shortcomings including that the definition of survivors relates only to Yezidi women who were kidnapped by ISIS and...more
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"There is some limited psycho-social assistance, and initiatives for survivors the means to earn their livelihoods, for Yezidi survivors of violence in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, but this could be strengthened" (2). "On April 7, 2019, the President submitted the draft Law on Support to Yazidi Women Survivors (Draft Law) to parliament. The draft, which was shared with Human Rights Watch, aims to rehabilitate, reintegrate and provide economic empowerment to Yezidi female survivors, as well as to provide symbolic recognition of genocide committed against Yezidis. However, there are a number of shortcomings including that the definition of survivors relates only to Yezidi women who were kidnapped by ISIS and...more
Feb. 3, 2025, 5:15 p.m.
Countries: Nigeria
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"Since at least 2013, the Nigerian military has conducted a secret, systematic and illegal abortion programme in the country’s northeast, ending at least 10,000 pregnancies among women and girls, a Reuters investigation has found. Many had been kidnapped and raped by Islamist militants. Resisters were beaten, held at gunpoint or drugged into compliance, witnesses say" (Para 1). "Fati was four months pregnant when liberated from the insurgents. Soon after, she says, soldiers medically aborted the pregnancy without telling her. And she was warned: “If you share this with anyone, you will be seriously beaten" (Para 7). "Central to the abortion programme is a notion widely held within the military and...more
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"Since at least 2013, the Nigerian military has conducted a secret, systematic and illegal abortion programme in the country’s northeast, ending at least 10,000 pregnancies among women and girls, a Reuters investigation has found. Many had been kidnapped and raped by Islamist militants. Resisters were beaten, held at gunpoint or drugged into compliance, witnesses say" (Para 1). "Fati was four months pregnant when liberated from the insurgents. Soon after, she says, soldiers medically aborted the pregnancy without telling her. And she was warned: “If you share this with anyone, you will be seriously beaten" (Para 7). "Central to the abortion programme is a notion widely held within the military and...more
Feb. 3, 2025, 2:42 p.m.
Countries: D R Congo
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"Charities like MSF are reporting a growing number of refugees near the eastern city of Goma, DRC who are experiencing rape and torture (UST - CODERS COMMENT). [T]rezor’s(35-year-old works for MSF) job is harrowingly complex: ensuring rape survivors receive the psychological support required to move forward with their lives. Most arrive at the camps with no belongings, having walked for days to traverse the region’s shifting frontline. Many have been attacked at gunpoint by roaming groups of militia, their children forced to watch their mothers being raped. Entire families turn up in a profound state of shock. “Post-traumatic stress is observed in almost all sexual violence survivors. They are survivors...more
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"Charities like MSF are reporting a growing number of refugees near the eastern city of Goma, DRC who are experiencing rape and torture (UST - CODERS COMMENT). [T]rezor’s(35-year-old works for MSF) job is harrowingly complex: ensuring rape survivors receive the psychological support required to move forward with their lives. Most arrive at the camps with no belongings, having walked for days to traverse the region’s shifting frontline. Many have been attacked at gunpoint by roaming groups of militia, their children forced to watch their mothers being raped. Entire families turn up in a profound state of shock. “Post-traumatic stress is observed in almost all sexual violence survivors. They are survivors...more
Feb. 3, 2025, 2:10 p.m.
Countries: Nigeria
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"Since at least 2013, the Nigerian military has conducted a secret, systematic and illegal abortion programme in the country’s northeast, ending at least 10,000 pregnancies among women and girls, a Reuters investigation has found. Many had been kidnapped and raped by Islamist militants. Resisters were beaten, held at gunpoint or drugged into compliance, witnesses say" (Para 1). "Fati was four months pregnant when liberated from the insurgents. Soon after, she says, soldiers medically aborted the pregnancy without telling her. And she was warned: “If you share this with anyone, you will be seriously beaten" (Para 7). "Central to the abortion programme is a notion widely held within the military and...more
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"Since at least 2013, the Nigerian military has conducted a secret, systematic and illegal abortion programme in the country’s northeast, ending at least 10,000 pregnancies among women and girls, a Reuters investigation has found. Many had been kidnapped and raped by Islamist militants. Resisters were beaten, held at gunpoint or drugged into compliance, witnesses say" (Para 1). "Fati was four months pregnant when liberated from the insurgents. Soon after, she says, soldiers medically aborted the pregnancy without telling her. And she was warned: “If you share this with anyone, you will be seriously beaten" (Para 7). "Central to the abortion programme is a notion widely held within the military and...more
Feb. 3, 2025, 1:14 p.m.
Countries: Ethiopia
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"Two weeks earlier, I had flown to Mekelle from Brooklyn. It was the first time I had returned to Ethiopia in 20 years. One of my reasons for visiting was to speak with women who were survivors of conflict-related sexual violence as part of my work with the Tigray Action Committee, a nonprofit my sister and I founded to raise awareness about people’s suffering during the two-year civil war between Ethiopia and Tigray, the country’s northernmost regional state. Many of the women I spoke to were assaulted during the central government’s war on Tigray, which has been described as one of the deadliest of the 21st century to date, with...more
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"Two weeks earlier, I had flown to Mekelle from Brooklyn. It was the first time I had returned to Ethiopia in 20 years. One of my reasons for visiting was to speak with women who were survivors of conflict-related sexual violence as part of my work with the Tigray Action Committee, a nonprofit my sister and I founded to raise awareness about people’s suffering during the two-year civil war between Ethiopia and Tigray, the country’s northernmost regional state. Many of the women I spoke to were assaulted during the central government’s war on Tigray, which has been described as one of the deadliest of the 21st century to date, with...more
Jan. 18, 2025, 1:24 p.m.
Countries: Saudi Arabia
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"Houri was released from a Houthi jail in 2019 and gave numerous powerful interviews, mainly on Arabic channels, claiming female prisoners were systematically raped, mistreated and held for ransom. Her testimony contributed to UN security council sanctions being imposed on two Houthi security officials in February 2021. It was later alleged that she admitted some of her testimony on Arabic TV was untrue and she had embellished claims at the request of Saudi officials. . .He said Houri had told him that some, but not all, she said about her time in prison was either false or embellished. She had told him that some of the embellishment was on the...more
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"Houri was released from a Houthi jail in 2019 and gave numerous powerful interviews, mainly on Arabic channels, claiming female prisoners were systematically raped, mistreated and held for ransom. Her testimony contributed to UN security council sanctions being imposed on two Houthi security officials in February 2021. It was later alleged that she admitted some of her testimony on Arabic TV was untrue and she had embellished claims at the request of Saudi officials. . .He said Houri had told him that some, but not all, she said about her time in prison was either false or embellished. She had told him that some of the embellishment was on the...more
Jan. 18, 2025, 1:10 p.m.
Countries: Iran
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-3, GEW-PRACTICE-1
"Theories around who is behind the series of horrifying attacks include that the authorities may be taking revenge on the girls for their role in the protests which have been ongoing for months" (par. 17).
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-3, GEW-PRACTICE-1
"Theories around who is behind the series of horrifying attacks include that the authorities may be taking revenge on the girls for their role in the protests which have been ongoing for months" (par. 17).